PHYSIOKINETIC; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Tactile Sensitively (touch sense)

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Touch sense, often thought of as “inappropriate” but when it comes to karate, martial arts and especially self-defense, tactile sensitivity can be real important. In this particular case, self-defense, touch sense or TS for tactile sensitivity - both will apply if you see TS as a terse form of identifying this sub-principle.

TS, the stimuli through what we feel. It responds faster than visual sensitivity, it typically offers more information and it is less easily deceived. TS’s relative quickness comes from a reflex action or reaction that occurs without involving the brain, i.e., the monkey and/or human brain but does involve the lizard provided appropriate training is achieved. 

TS enhances our response and our application of multiple methodologies only once they become reflexive (programmed into procedural memory), i.e., they must be drilled into the neuromuscular reflex that is actually encoding into that part of the brain that is instinctive by nature - the lizard brain. It then becomes a zombie like sub-routine of the brain allowing you to achieve your goals. 

TS offers more information than visual sensitivity, it offers full body information that includes the relative power of our adversary, our state of balance, our adversary’s state of balance, the direction of the moving forces, etc. 

Reciprocity, another sub-principle, ensures that TS can be exploited by tactics such as indirect pressure. We as self-defense karate-ka and martial artists to apply our TS in ways that allow us to take advantage of the fact that our adversary will pay more attention to feel than to sight. 

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